I'm TRYING to figure out, CHAIRMAN of what Board? People COME up to me and seriously SAY: 'Well, what are you Chairman of?' And I can't answer them.

I really have to give the NAVY all the credit it deserves. They were so flexible and accommodating, given that EVERYBODY on board had better things to worry about than this PERSON COMING on board who's just going to be in the way, really.

When I was 28, RUNNING products for a COMPANY I'd co-founded, the CEO called to say that I had a problem with the BOARD, that I probably couldn't overcome it, that I'd have to leave the company.

I don't LIKE BOARD GAMES.

I'm on the board of the Sierra Club Foundation and am myself a big environmentalist. But the way to make the BIGGEST DIFFERENCE is to CHANGE MAINSTREAM behavior.

I am on the BOARD of CORPORATIONS who CONTRIBUTE both to environmental problems and their solutions. And I am on the NGO side: the Earth Council and other ORGANIZATIONS.

Historically the Puritans left England to ESCAPE religious persecution, and they promptly turned around and started persecuting the people they didn't agree with - the SCARLET LETTER A, and the stocks and the dunking board came from that. That puritanism is STILL there.

After your knife and your CUTTING board, quality pots and pans are the most IMPORTANT tools in your kitchen, and a good set can run hundreds, even thousands, of DOLLARS.

I WOULD not BOARD a PLANE piloted by a quota beneficiary or be OPERATED on by a quota DOCTOR.

I am both proud and HONORED to be on the Board of DIRECTORS for the TEXAS Ballet Theater.

Of COURSE, I have a different vested interest in the gay COMMUNITY, because I am gay, and I would certainly enjoy the TAX advantages that straight people have, and the inheritance advantages, and THINGS like Social Security, but I've always been a civil rights advocate ACROSS the board. That's how I was raised.

Anytime someone uses one of my songs for anything - a ceremony or a sacred moment - that, to me, is a high honor. I'm PROUD of the song at that point because I'm trying to write something for HUMANS - whichever humans want to get on board and PUT this in their soundtrack to their SOUL's development or SPIRITUAL lives.

All my DREAMS are coming true all ACROSS the BOARD for some reason.

We had rising student ACHIEVEMENT ACROSS the board because high standards, robust accountability, ending SOCIAL promotion in THIRD grade, real school CHOICE across the board, challenging the teachers union and beating them is the way to go.

Growing up, I looked up to major league BASEBALL players, and now these young women have amazing, INCREDIBLE women all ACROSS the board, from swimming to gymnastics to softball to BASKETBALL.